Long Live Lee-T-Ru-Katzism
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by Silas Soule
Long Live Lee-T-Ru-Katzism!!
In the long, grorious history of e-socialism and its kissing cousins -- such as e-anarchism, e-communism and e-anarcho-communism -- there have been several attempts at codifying the ideology behind these bold and extraordinary attempts at revolutionizing the New World.
Unfortunately, the creation and propagation of tongue-twisting appellations for such e-ideologies of the Left have failed to keep pace with their real-life correspondences.
So, while we have all kinds of great run-on names for ideological pseudo-scientific fictions and factions of the Left in the real world, like Marxism-Leninism-Pasadoism and such, their sparkling parallels in eRepublik, like Ramonism-Chuikovism and Banism, have sadly been few and far between.
Sidebar: Sure, sure, there're those ultra-e-lefties who claim to simply be applying real life "Marxism" or "Marxism-Leninism" or "Trotskyism" or "Maoism" to the game world, but those don't count in my book because (1) they lack the endorphin-producing qualities that I need to get a kick out of them and (2) the whole point of producing an e-Far-Left-Wing ideology should be to apply "the science of revolution" to this world, yeah?
Now, to be ultra-clear: I am by no means opposed to pulling ideas in from the real world. Especially if it involves also pulling somebody's leg. And it is certainly in keeping with the grand real life Commie tradition of humbly naming a world-transformative, historically-sweeping "science" after yourself to do the same in the New World. Hence, huge kudos to Ramonism-Chuikovism, and to Banism, for keeping to that hegemonic ideological spirit.
As my loyal, dedicated and verah, verah sexah readers may be aware, I am a bit of a fan of Ramonism-Chuikovism myself, so naturally I am tempted to suggest that the e-revolutionary ideology should henceforth be known as "Ramonism-Chuikovism, Phoenix Quinn Thought". But that would be presumptious and a bit vain, wouldn't it?
So...
I propose instead that the revolutionary e-science be named Lee-T-Ru-Katzism!
Let's break it down and see why this is such an excellent idea:
* Lee is for Bruce Lee. He the most awesome action hero of all time and he promoted a form of martial arts -- Wing Chun -- that has great resonance for the world proletariat.
The Divine Wind
No joke. Wing Chun was invented by women to defend against the onslaughts of the patriarchy. It played a key role, particularly in the actions of Bruce Lee's master, Ip Man, in inspiring Chinese resistance to both Japanese imperialism and to Anglo brutishness in Hong Kong. And Bruce Lee embodied all of those traits and promoted them for a very broad modern audience in a time when Chinese-in-America were still being treated a less-than first-class citizens. If you haven't seen the new Green Hornet movie, check it out. In the "real life" TV show of the same name, Bruce Lee was the guy who played Kato. The film provides a wonderful depiction of how the working-class -- as represented by Kato/Brue Lee -- is superior to their degenerate so-called "bosses" in every way.
* T is for Mr. T. The second most-awesome action hero of all time, among other great achievements, Mr. T practically invented showing off bling for the purpose of "screwing with the man".
"Quit yo Jibber-jabber! You ain't hurt, yo pathetic!, Argh! If I ever catch you acting like a crazy fool again, you're gonna meet my friend pain!"
Mr. T is a real-life working class hero. Born into one of the most povertry-stricken areas of urban America, his awesomeness eventually led him to become a bodyguard for Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier (yes, think about that!) and then went on to become a beloved star of films and TV shows. His trademark qualities of super-badness, super-good-heartedness (he donated all of his bling to help victims of Hurriance Katrina and in 1984 he made an inspirational video that includes him singing an original song called "Treat Your Mother Right") and, of course, his super-awesome Mandinka-warrior-style Mohawk are an inspiration to downtrodden workers everywhere.
* Ru is for RuPaul, the fiercest drag queen who has ever lived.
"If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?"
The first drag queen supermodel, RuPaul has done it all, from cult fame at Wigstock, to hit songs, to two popular TV shows, and, of course, many movie roles. Of course that was her as Rachel Tensions in To Wong Foo, but that was also her in both of the Brady Bunch movies as Jan's guidance counselor! Less well-known, but equally inspiring to all those who cannot go on in the old way was her role as Mrs. Strict in Zombie Prom: The Movie. The fact that RuPaul's 2011 Glamazon album, which hit the top of the iTunes charts, was produced by RevoLucian, shows her on-going commitment to RevoLucianary causes in the great spirit of that steller socialist aestheticist, Oscar Wilde.
And finally...
* Katz is for Damien Katz, the inventor of CouchDB (now being merged into couchbase).
"Religion - unapologetically atheist" -- from DK's blog
WTF? Who is this? What is that? Well, if you like Facebook, or Tweeting, or blogging in general, or pretty much any form of internetz-data-sharing that requires lazy consistency and built-in massive redundancy that also supports fault-tolerant partioning and high availability, then you have comrade Katz to thank. Oh, and it's all completely free. Even the source code is freely available for you geeks to play around with. And it doesn't require a degree in higher-order Haskell to implement a system with CouchDB. It's ALL done in a simple NoSQL way with JavaScript and JSON. Damien Katz simply gave folks everywhere one of the key tools they need to build Democracy 2.0. And why? Because he "wanted to do something cool".
Workers of the world, Relax.
If you adopt the fine qualities of these outstanding revolutionaries to your game play, you are sure to accomplish the following goals:
* Be able to attack and defend at the same time, like Bruce Lee
* Be both super-tough and super-caring, like Mr. T
* Against all the odds, become incredibly fabulous, like RuPaul
* Do something totally amazing that benefits everybody and is easy to learn, just because that's a cool thing to do, like Damien Katz
Up the Revolution!
Long Live Lee-T-Ru-Katzism!!
In the long, grorious history of e-socialism and its kissing cousins -- such as e-anarchism, e-communism and e-anarcho-communism -- there have been several attempts at codifying the ideology behind these bold and extraordinary attempts at revolutionizing the New World.
Unfortunately, the creation and propagation of tongue-twisting appellations for such e-ideologies of the Left have failed to keep pace with their real-life correspondences.
So, while we have all kinds of great run-on names for ideological pseudo-scientific fictions and factions of the Left in the real world, like Marxism-Leninism-Pasadoism and such, their sparkling parallels in eRepublik, like Ramonism-Chuikovism and Banism, have sadly been few and far between.
Sidebar: Sure, sure, there're those ultra-e-lefties who claim to simply be applying real life "Marxism" or "Marxism-Leninism" or "Trotskyism" or "Maoism" to the game world, but those don't count in my book because (1) they lack the endorphin-producing qualities that I need to get a kick out of them and (2) the whole point of producing an e-Far-Left-Wing ideology should be to apply "the science of revolution" to this world, yeah?
Now, to be ultra-clear: I am by no means opposed to pulling ideas in from the real world. Especially if it involves also pulling somebody's leg. And it is certainly in keeping with the grand real life Commie tradition of humbly naming a world-transformative, historically-sweeping "science" after yourself to do the same in the New World. Hence, huge kudos to Ramonism-Chuikovism, and to Banism, for keeping to that hegemonic ideological spirit.
As my loyal, dedicated and verah, verah sexah readers may be aware, I am a bit of a fan of Ramonism-Chuikovism myself, so naturally I am tempted to suggest that the e-revolutionary ideology should henceforth be known as "Ramonism-Chuikovism, Phoenix Quinn Thought". But that would be presumptious and a bit vain, wouldn't it?
So...
I propose instead that the revolutionary e-science be named Lee-T-Ru-Katzism!
Let's break it down and see why this is such an excellent idea:
* Lee is for Bruce Lee. He the most awesome action hero of all time and he promoted a form of martial arts -- Wing Chun -- that has great resonance for the world proletariat.
The Divine Wind
No joke. Wing Chun was invented by women to defend against the onslaughts of the patriarchy. It played a key role, particularly in the actions of Bruce Lee's master, Ip Man, in inspiring Chinese resistance to both Japanese imperialism and to Anglo brutishness in Hong Kong. And Bruce Lee embodied all of those traits and promoted them for a very broad modern audience in a time when Chinese-in-America were still being treated a less-than first-class citizens. If you haven't seen the new Green Hornet movie, check it out. In the "real life" TV show of the same name, Bruce Lee was the guy who played Kato. The film provides a wonderful depiction of how the working-class -- as represented by Kato/Brue Lee -- is superior to their degenerate so-called "bosses" in every way.
* T is for Mr. T. The second most-awesome action hero of all time, among other great achievements, Mr. T practically invented showing off bling for the purpose of "screwing with the man".
"Quit yo Jibber-jabber! You ain't hurt, yo pathetic!, Argh! If I ever catch you acting like a crazy fool again, you're gonna meet my friend pain!"
Mr. T is a real-life working class hero. Born into one of the most povertry-stricken areas of urban America, his awesomeness eventually led him to become a bodyguard for Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier (yes, think about that!) and then went on to become a beloved star of films and TV shows. His trademark qualities of super-badness, super-good-heartedness (he donated all of his bling to help victims of Hurriance Katrina and in 1984 he made an inspirational video that includes him singing an original song called "Treat Your Mother Right") and, of course, his super-awesome Mandinka-warrior-style Mohawk are an inspiration to downtrodden workers everywhere.
* Ru is for RuPaul, the fiercest drag queen who has ever lived.
"If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?"
The first drag queen supermodel, RuPaul has done it all, from cult fame at Wigstock, to hit songs, to two popular TV shows, and, of course, many movie roles. Of course that was her as Rachel Tensions in To Wong Foo, but that was also her in both of the Brady Bunch movies as Jan's guidance counselor! Less well-known, but equally inspiring to all those who cannot go on in the old way was her role as Mrs. Strict in Zombie Prom: The Movie. The fact that RuPaul's 2011 Glamazon album, which hit the top of the iTunes charts, was produced by RevoLucian, shows her on-going commitment to RevoLucianary causes in the great spirit of that steller socialist aestheticist, Oscar Wilde.
And finally...
* Katz is for Damien Katz, the inventor of CouchDB (now being merged into couchbase).
"Religion - unapologetically atheist" -- from DK's blog
WTF? Who is this? What is that? Well, if you like Facebook, or Tweeting, or blogging in general, or pretty much any form of internetz-data-sharing that requires lazy consistency and built-in massive redundancy that also supports fault-tolerant partioning and high availability, then you have comrade Katz to thank. Oh, and it's all completely free. Even the source code is freely available for you geeks to play around with. And it doesn't require a degree in higher-order Haskell to implement a system with CouchDB. It's ALL done in a simple NoSQL way with JavaScript and JSON. Damien Katz simply gave folks everywhere one of the key tools they need to build Democracy 2.0. And why? Because he "wanted to do something cool".
Workers of the world, Relax.
If you adopt the fine qualities of these outstanding revolutionaries to your game play, you are sure to accomplish the following goals:
* Be able to attack and defend at the same time, like Bruce Lee
* Be both super-tough and super-caring, like Mr. T
* Against all the odds, become incredibly fabulous, like RuPaul
* Do something totally amazing that benefits everybody and is easy to learn, just because that's a cool thing to do, like Damien Katz
Up the Revolution!
Long Live Lee-T-Ru-Katzism!!
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"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." -- Bruce Lee
^ which is why I "pity the fool!"
Hmm, Gnilraps I like your pity but monetary funds would be nice
+keep an open mind and share your wonderful crazy ideas, like PQ 😁
I'm in
If I ever successfully PTO the PCP, remind me to impliment this.
Sounds cool, but the ultimate description you give just makes Lee-T-Ru-Katzism sound like a vanguard party (which is totally ok). I'm curious though- what are the actual positions held by Lee-T-Ru-Katzism?
"And it is certainly in keeping with the grand real life Commie tradition of humbly naming a world-transformative, historically-sweeping "science" after yourself to do the same in the New World. Hence, huge kudos to Ramonism-Chuikovism, and to Banism, for keeping to that hegemonic ideological spirit."
hit the nail on the head, mate. voted+subscribed
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@FT: LeeTRuKatz-fu is a split from Groucho-Marxism. Its pratictioners would be likely to agree with Subcomandante Marcos when he said in his public criticism of ETA "I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of the planet" (http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=03/02/14/8285088):
"We teach [the children of the EZLN] that there are so many words like colors and that there are so many thoughts because within them is the world where words are born. That there are different thoughts and we should respect them. That there are those who pretend their way of thinking should be the only way and they persecute, jail, and kill (always hidden behind the reasons of the State, illegitimate laws, or "just causes") thoughts that are different then their own. And we teach them to speak the truth, that is to say, to speak with their hearts."
Having said that, I would expect a LeeTRuKatz master to respect and support all transgressive and progressive movements and actions in eRep, including those with a vanguardist approach, as well as those initiated by individuals and autonomous groups, as long as they serve the cause of freedom and great justice.
@MikeBane: Yes, LeeTRuKatzism is a hammer! One of those big plastic cushy clown hammers, but a hammer dammit!
This is so T. C. Boyle.
Haha! Well, at least I got over my Chuck Palahniuk obsession.
I'm truly a Leetrukatzist